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Alliance Française a organisé une «Journée du livre gratuit»
Alliance Française a organisé une «Journée du livre gratuit»
Lié avec l’Année de lecture dans les EAU, organisée par le gouvernement, l’Alliance française a organisé une «Journée du livre gratuit» aujourd’hui 9h30-17 heures. Des milliers de livres ont été affichés dans les locaux de l’Alliance Française pour les familles avec enfants à ramener à la maison pour encourager la lecture. Jean-Yves Carnino Directeur de l’Alliance Française a parlé exclusivement
Kanda Kumara Vadivela – Sai Bhajan by Rajashree Menon
Kanda Kumara Vadivela – Sai Bhajan by Rajashree Menon
Tabala – Master Sayeesh / Harmonium – Prashanth /Chorus – Sathyam Abu Dhabi
Video and photo: by Ramesh Menon, taken during a recent visit to Palani.
Tabalatronic in Abu Dhabi – an international musical fusion event
Tabalatronic by Subash Dhunoohchand and Ramesh Menon
Alliance Française Abu Dhabi is organizing Tablatronic, an international musical fusion event, on Friday, 30th September 2016 at Novotel Al Bustan Ballroom, Abu Dhabi.
The event will have Subhash Dhunoohchand (from Réunion Island) and Ramesh Menon (from Abu Dhabi), performing on various percussion instruments at this cine-concert of worldwide music and an exhibition of fascinating images of Réunion Island.
Performing on stage along with them will be Solange and Nino, the singers of Gayamb, a Creole band that used to play in Reunion Island many years ago. They play original and traditional songs with this particular rhythm from the Indian Ocean called “Sega”: a music mixed from African, Indian and European origins, reflecting the great melting pot of people in Réunion Island that live together for centuries in harmony. Their recent performances included Southern Africa, Bahrain, Oman as well as in UAE.
Tabalatronic tickets can be availed online on Time Out (online) and at Alliance Francaise (paper ticket – contact 02 6122900).
If you, or any of your friends are interested, kindly extend the invitation to them. I will be happy to arrange passes for them to be attend.
Thanks and sincere regards for your support.
Eid Fair at Kadugodi Village
Eid Al Adha was celebrated this year at Bangalore. In the evening, walked around a village fair. It was interesting to see the fun and fanfare associated.
Wish everyone a blessed year ahead.
Back to School! #StartEarlyDriveCarefullyReachSafely
Back to School!
Let our priority be on imparting Road Safety Values to children & parents.
Let order and peace prevail on our roads.
Let our children learn the value of discipline in their day-to-day life.
#StartEarlyDriveCarefullyReachSafely
Humility is the Key
The Hindu newspaper carries a beautiful column every day except Sunday. It was a must read for me during my younger days. Follow it whenever possible as it is good to read it and pass it on to the young generation the values of life. Have a great day/great weekend.
Click Your Heart Out!
Opportunity for Passionate Photographers Group Members.
To photograph 12 exclusive events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai till end 2016 !
* Cultural/Sports/Indoor/Outdoor
* All are welcome
* Photography equipment and guidance will be provided
If interested, write to talentshare2016@gmail.com for more details
Weekend in Venice is now a flight away with Etihad
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, will expand its services to Italy with a new daily flight to Venice’s Marco Polo Airport. The new service will begin operations from 30th October, 2016 and be served by an Airbus A319, offering 16 seats in Business and 90 in Economy. Together with Alitalia, its code-share and equity partner, Etihad Airways will offer 35 weekly flights in and out of Italy, including double daily services to Rome and Milan.
One of the most beautiful travel locations to plan your weekend/long holidays made easier by this new route.
You will agree with me as you see some of my clicks taken during my visit.
Mind Speaks: E-volution to excessiveness
E-volution to excessiveness
It was lying idle for quite some time. To be fair to that time limit, it has remained not in use for more than 5 years now. During its days, it was a king on its own merit.
You must be wondering, what I am talking about?
It is nothing but a 1 GB Desktop, I assembled and used for a long time. It had some of the best features handpicked and assembled including the high end hard disk, memory cards, a good resolution graphic card and monitor.
Today, I thought, I find time to re-assemble it once again. It used to be a hobby once upon a time to assemble PCs of choice.
Dissecting it into pieces brought again lot of memories.
What significantly stood out was the floppy disk option it had.
Suddenly, I thought about the 1980s, when all the computing work was done using an 8 inch floppy diskette. It was big and fragile and could handle about 500 KB of data. Imagine those days the accounting activities were more manual and some used Lotus 123. Both sides of the floppy diskettes were used and it writes data into the diskette with a loud noise! Those were also the days the data was stored only in floppy disks.
Years passed and then the 5 1/4 inch floppy diskettes arrive with more data space, at times up to 1200 KB (1.2 MB).
Then the 3½ inch compact floppy disks with 1.44 MB space arrived.
There has been no dearth in terms of storage options with hard disks coming out with bigger in terms of storage space and smaller in terms of physical size.
Now USB storage disks come in small size with 2 TB size even.
Life goes on and what used to be once an integral part of my professional and personal computing activities have now become redundant and retired.
What next? Everything is in unclear and remains suspense as in the cloud!
Remain Green.
Ramesh Menon, Abu Dhabi
30th July 2016
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